Utetheisa cruentata

Utetheisa cruentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subtribe: Callimorphina
Genus: Utetheisa
Species: U. cruentata
Binomial name
Utetheisa cruentata
(Butler, 1881)
Synonyms

Deiopeia cruentata Butler, 1881

Utetheisa cruentata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Mauritius.[1]

The larvae feed on Tournefortia argentea[2]

References

  1. afromoths
  2. Goodger & Watson, 1995, The Afrotropical Tiger-Moths: 27

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